Ten basic forms of fake news used by major media By Jon Rappoport

The basic purpose of these ten forms: the presentation of a false picture of reality.

You could find more forms, or divide these ten into sub-categories.

The ten basic forms are:

Direct lying about matters of fact. (This sometimes includes
doubling down on lies already told, or telling a bigger lie after the
first one.)

Leaving out vital information.

Limited hangout. (This is an admission of a crime or a
mistake, which only partially reveals the whole truth. The idea is that
by admitting a fraction of what really happened and burying the biggest
revelations, people will be satisfied and go away, and the story will
never be covered again.)

Shutting down the truth after publishing it---includes failing to follow up and investigate a story more deeply.

Not connecting dots between important pieces of data.

Censoring the truth, wherever it is found (or calling it "fake news").

Using biased "experts" to present slanted or false "facts."

Repeating a false story many times---this includes the
echo-chamber effect, in which a number of outlets "bounce" the false
story among themselves.

Claiming a reasonable and true consensus exists, when it
doesn't, when there are many important dissenters, who are shut out from
offering their analysis.

Employing a panoply of effects (reputation of the media
outlet, voice quality of the anchor, acting skills, dry mechanical
language, studio lighting, overlay of electronic transmissions, etc.) to
create an impression of elevated authority which is beyond challenge.

These are all traditional forms and methods.

Here's an example of a big story that deployed all ten forms of fake news: the Swine Flu pandemic of 2009.

In the spring of 2009, the World Health Organization
(elevated authority whose pronouncements are beyond challenge) announced
that Swine Flu was a level-6 pandemic---its highest category of
"danger." In fact, there were only 20 confirmed cases at the time
(direct lying about "danger"). And W.H.O. quietly changed the definition
of "level-6" so widespread death and damage were no longer required
(another aspect of direct lying).

The story was, of course, picked up by major media outlets
all over the world (echo chamber effect, fake consensus, never connected
dots re W.H.O. lies), and quite soon, Swine Flu case numbers rose into
the thousands (direct lying, as we'll soon see).

Medical experts were brought in to bolster the claims of
danger (biased experts; important dissenters never given space to
comment).

In the early fall of 2009, Sharyl Attkisson, then a star
investigative reporter for CBS News, published a story on the CBS News
website. She indicated that the CDC had secretly stopped counting the
number of Swine Flu cases in America. No other major news outlet
reported this fact (omitting vital information).

Attkisson discovered the reason the CDC had stopped counting:
the overwhelming number of blood samples taken from the most likely
Swine Flu patients were coming back from labs with: no trace of Swine
Flu or any other kind of flu. Therefore, a gigantic hoax was revealed.
The pandemic was a dud, a fake.

Despite Attkisson's efforts, CBS never followed up on her
story (shutting down the truth after exposing it). Never probed the
lying by the CDC (failure to connect dots). In a sense, CBS turned
Attkisson's story into a limited hangout---a further investigation would
have uncovered acres of criminal behavior by both the CDC and the World
Health Organization, to say nothing of the governments and media
outlets that supported these lying agencies. The mainstream press
essentially censored Attkisson's revelations.

Then, about three weeks after CBS published Attkisson's
story, WebMD published a piece in which the CDC claimed that its own
(lying) estimate of 10,000 or so cases of Swine Flu in the US was a
gross understatement. Truly, there were 22 MILLION cases of Swine Flu in
the US (doubling-down on lying).

And that was that.

And these mainstream sources are currently shouting and
bloviating about independent media spreading fake news. I guess you
could call that number 11: accusing their opponents of committing the
crimes they are, in fact, committing.

The
author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US
Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a
consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he
has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles
on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.